UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2012

Playa del Rey, CA, USA

Black craft shows up in picture i did not see when taking the picture

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-15
Where
Playa del Rey, CA, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
2 min
Geo
33.949, -118.446 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-playa-del-rey-ca-2012-29d9f5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Playa del Rey, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 758 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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